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HIPPIE COLONIES
Counterculture of the 60s
• Hippies rejected the establishment
• Embraced Eastern philosophies and sexual liberation
• Protested against the Vietnam war
Hippie Communes
• They created places were they could live the ideal hippie life
• Communes-secular
-alternative religions
• Used a modified tribal structure based on the Native American example
• 1960-70-many rural and urban communities were founded, but lasted a short time because of poor planning and execution
DROP CITY
• First rural hippie commune
• 1965-Trinidad, Colorado
• Community of artists
• Founded by Gene Bernofski, JoAnnBernofski, Richard Kallweit, Clark Richert
• Envisioned themselves as a utopian community living within a work of art
HOG FARM
• Longest running hippie commune
• Founded in 1964 by the clown Hugh Romney also known as Wavy Gravy
Wavy Gravy
• Initially located on a hog farm outside Los Angeles, it became a travelling commune
• They were in charge of the security at Woodstock-they were known as the ‘Please Force’
THE FARM
• Founded in 1971 by Stephen Gaskin
• Was a spiritual leader in San Francisco
• Taught a blend of Eastern religions and Christianity
• Lewis County, Tennessee
• Members took vows of poverty, did not use artificial birth controls, alcohol, tobacco, animal products
• Believed in the holiness of life
• Smoking marijuana was a sacrament
Children of God/The Family
• Was part of the ‘Jesus Movement’, a Christian element within the hippie movement
• The members of the movement were called ‘Jesus freaks’
• Founded in 1968 by David Berg in California
David Berg
• Founded colonies in cities around the world
• Rejected mainstream Christianity
• Had ideas of apocalypticism and revolution against the outside world that they call ‘the System’
• True disciples must drop out and ‘forsake all.’
• Flirty Fishing
• The group’s liberal sexuality led to cases of child abuse